The future of healthcare.
Change Has a Pattern, built for healthcare leaders. The cycle every big change follows, applied to the forces reshaping your world right now. Your people walk out ready for it.
Medicine has been here before.
Every era of medicine has had its jetpack. Germ theory. Anesthesia. The randomized trial. Each one promised new heights and terrified the people who had to fly it. And each one followed the same pattern: early adopters got burned, the tools didn't pay off until the system around them changed, and the organizations that steered instead of braced set the standard for the next fifty years.
AI is healthcare's jetpack now. Diagnostic models that outperform specialists on narrow tasks. Synthetic patient data that can train systems without a single real record. Deepfake telehealth that can impersonate a physician or a patient. The technology is arriving faster than the trust infrastructure around it, and that gap is where the risk lives.
Change Has a Pattern
In this keynote, Sam Rad shows healthcare leaders the cycle every big change follows, why the new tools aren't paying off yet, and the four moves that turn the corner. The pattern has repeated for five thousand years, which is why it lands with any room in this industry.
The four moves
See the pattern. Let go of the old way. Lead the jetpack. Take it off. The arc underneath: recognition, reassurance, challenge, agency, practice, hope.
We don't have an adoption problem. We have a reinvention problem. The returns happen after you redesign.
Three forces Sam maps on stage.
The industry built it together.
Sam co-founded Chronicled, the company that convened the MediLedger Project and led the analysis behind the FDA's DSCSA pilot. Twenty-five organizations across pharma manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and retail pharmacy took part, covering the wholesalers responsible for the overwhelming majority of US prescription drug sales.
Sam doesn't just predict the future. She lives in it.
Sam Rad is an anthropologist and four-time technology founder. She built companies across AI, blockchain, and connected hardware: two that used AI to map personal taste, then Chronicled, the San Francisco company bringing trust to global commerce and supply chains, and NYOUM, a London-based generative AI communication platform.
Trained in anthropology and linguistics, her research runs to simulated realities, cognitive security, and post-human society. She holds a family of patents linking the physical and digital worlds, and her early blockchain protocols contributed to ERC-721, the standard behind NFTs. She has advised the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the Federal Reserve Bank, keynoted on five continents, and written two #1 bestsellers, Radical Next and Bitcoin Pizza.
She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 for enterprise technology and spent a year off-grid in the Amazon. Before the boardrooms she was a competitive skydiver, which is where the keynote's jetpack metaphor comes from, and why the reassurance at the end of it lands.
See the room react.
Governments. Fortune 500s. Global institutions.
Sam has keynoted on five continents for organizations including Cisco, Dell, SAP, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the Federal Reserve Bank.
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The research behind this keynote. Primary sources, updated September 2026.